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Fine motor skills are so important! These skills are the coordination of small muscle movements in body parts such as the fingers, often in coordination with the eyes. Daily practice is best to ensure children will have adequate motor control when it’s time to begin writing. Fine motor skills practice should start with babies […]

Though it is already too late for you to use this idea for your own Christmas cards this year, I still wanted to go ahead and share our very simple kid-created nativity Christmas cards with you! I normally do a photo card for Christmas, but wanted something a little bit more hands-on that the kids […]

This is one of my favorite Christmas crafts we’ve ever done and it is so simple! Head over to WRAL: Go Ask Mom to check out our Lighted Christmas Tree Craft guest post!! The trees are much prettier than the photos suggest. We made them one evening and hung them in our […]

Yesterday I shared 5 Fun Activities for Kids using a Turkey Baster as a guest post on WRAL: Go Ask Mom. Click here to read my original post and even find out where I’ve found turkey basters for just a dollar each!!! But that’s not all! Here are EVEN MORE ways to have fun with a turkey […]

Though I have never specifically posted about any of our Montessori works on the blog before, we actually own quite a lot of them, like the sandpaper letters, red rods, number rods, the pink tower, and metal insets to name just a few! (Thanks, Craigslist!!) We also incorporate some of Maria Montessori’s ideologies into our home […]

Do you have preschoolers or young children? Are you a parent or a teacher? Are you a babysitter or a nanny?Thinking about trying home preschool? Are you looking for activities to do in your homeschool? Do you own or work in a daycare or preschool? Looking for some fresh ideas to try […]

If you have a beginning reader, you can make your own reading rods for some word play fun! Read all about how to craft your own here. I wrote this post about a year ago, so I thought I would re-share since the site has grown so much since then and this post was one […]

DH built this homemade wooden balance beam for the kids to use outdoors last summer. It took him all of about 5 minutes to make it using scrap wood we had in the garage — his old loft bed from college — so it didn’t really cost us anything. Our preschool aged kids have had […]

I am going to start making lots of different sensory bottles with Luke and Lilah, my preschool-aged children. As we perfect them, we’ll share them with you! Here’s the first one: a DIY rain stick sensory bottle. Rain sticks are fun for the youngest baby all the way to the adults! Not only do they […]

Since it has started warming up, Luke (4) and Lilah (2) have been asking me to give them water to drink all. the. time! Ordinarily they aren’t big drinkers, usually drinking only at meal and snack times. When we are out and about, we use Klean Kanteen stainless steel water bottles which hold a decent […]